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2 Corinthians 5:14-6:2
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14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.(A) 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves(B) but for him who died for them(C) and was raised again.

16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly(D) point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,(E) the new creation(F) has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!(G) 18 All this is from God,(H) who reconciled us to himself through Christ(I) and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.(J) And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors,(K) as though God were making his appeal through us.(L) We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.(M) 21 God made him who had no sin(N) to be sin[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.(O)

6 As God’s co-workers(P) we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.(Q) 2 For he says,

“In the time of my favor I heard you,
    and in the day of salvation I helped you.”[c](R)

I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Or Christ, that person is a new creation.
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:21 Or be a sin offering
  3. 2 Corinthians 6:2 Isaiah 49:8
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2 Corinthians 5:14-6:2
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14 The love of the Messiah[a] controls us, for we are convinced of this: that one person died for all people; therefore, all people have died. 15 He died for all people, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for the one who died and rose for them.

16 So then, from now on we do not think of anyone from a human point of view.[b] Even if we did think of the Messiah[c] from a human point of view,[d] we don’t think of him that way anymore. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in the Messiah,[e] he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and—look!—all things have become new!

18 All of this comes from God, who has reconciled us to himself through the Messiah[f] and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 for through the Messiah,[g] God was reconciling the world to himself by not counting their sins against them. He has committed his message of reconciliation to us. 20 Therefore, we are the Messiah’s[h] representatives, as though God were pleading through us. We plead on the Messiah’s[i] behalf: “Be reconciled to God!” 21 God[j] made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God’s righteousness would be produced in us.[k]

Workers with God

6 Since, then, we are working with God,[l] we plead with you not to accept God’s grace in vain. 2 For he says,

“At the right time I heard you,
and on a day of salvation I helped you.”[m]

Listen, now is really the “right time”! Now is the “day of salvation”!

Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:14 Or Christ
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:16 Lit. according to the flesh
  3. 2 Corinthians 5:16 Or Christ
  4. 2 Corinthians 5:16 Lit. according to the flesh
  5. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Or Christ
  6. 2 Corinthians 5:18 Or Christ
  7. 2 Corinthians 5:19 Or Christ
  8. 2 Corinthians 5:20 Or Christ’s
  9. 2 Corinthians 5:20 Or Christ’s
  10. 2 Corinthians 5:21 Lit. He
  11. 2 Corinthians 5:21 Lit. that we might become God’s righteousness in him
  12. 2 Corinthians 6:1 Lit. working together
  13. 2 Corinthians 6:2 Isa 49:8
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